Isn't she splendid ?" "She is!" There was no wavering of her thoughts as Maggie emphatically said this.
"I'm mighty glad you like her.

She certainly liked you.

She's all the family I've got, and since you two hit it off so well together I hope--I hope, Maggie--" And then Dick plunged into it, stammeringly, but earnestly.

He told her how much he loved her, in old phrases that his boyish ardor made vibrantly new.

He loved her! And if she would marry him, her influence would make him take the brace all his friends had urged upon him.